When switching my CallerID to my AppleID, my iphone shows numbers instead of contact names.

I recently bought a shiny new iPad 3, and decided I want my imessages in sync between my iphone (4) and my iPad. To that end, I switched my callerID in my iphone settings (settings > messages > Receive at > Caller ID) to my apple-id, and made sure it's the same between my ipad and iphone. The syncing works beautifully and I'm very happy about it.
However, my iPhone started showing the phone number instead of the contact name for imessages. I verified, on my ipad it shows the name still. My address book is synced via iCloud, and my contact's aren't duplicated. (Each phone number is unique)
When I set the callerID back to my own phone number, it correctly shows the name, but my imessages aren't in sync anymore. Really annoying. Is there anything I can do to force iOS to always show the contact name instead of the phone number in messages?
EDIT: some "regular" sms contacts aren't showing their names either after switching. Very strange.

I had this problem since i restored my iPhone 4 onto my iPhone 4s. turned out to be a corrupted address book database on the phone.
deleting the database @ /Users/Library/AddressBook (all files starting with AddressBook) (while Addressbook NOT running and when iCloud sync and iTunes sync both off) and re-run address book to create empty database before re enable sync solved it!

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